North Korea, which has been firing missiles and spewing threats against the United States, was identified by South Korea's main spy agency Wednesday as a suspect in the cyber attacks targeting government and other Web sites in the U.S. and South Korea. North Korea is not known for its computing prowess, but experts said such attacks would be easy and cheap to mount by hiring outside help. [More]
Israel has spent a decade preparing offensive cyberwarfare tools that independent experts see as the likely new vanguard of their efforts to foil the nuclear ambitions of its arch-foe Iran. [More]
South Korea to Develop Electromagnetic Pulse Bomb by 2014 — Jung Sung-ki —Korea Times — Jul 06, 2009
The South Korean military will have an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) bomb in five years that is capable of crippling an enemy's command-and-control, communications and defense radar systems. [More]
The increasing capability of high-resolution military and intelligence sensors is producing ever growing quantities of data that could overwhelm the capacity to analyze them without new approaches to data management and analysis, according to a newly released report from the JASON defense advisory panel. [More]
Pentagon Optimistic on Missile Defense System against North Korean Threat — Julian E. Barnes —Los Angeles Times — Jul 04, 2009
Top Pentagon officials have grown increasingly confident in the nation's missile defense system at a time when North Korea is threatening to conduct a long-range launch, leading to speculation of a possible showdown in the exosphere. [More]
A new distributed computing project, the EvoGrid, hopes to enlist millions of volunteers to use their desktop computers to power a simulation that can determine how life emerged from the primordial soup. [More]
As the threat of global warming grows more urgent, a few scientists are considering radicaland possibly extremely dangerousschemes for reengineering the climate by brute force. Their ideas are technologically plausible and quite cheap. So cheap, in fact, that a rich and committed environmentalist could act on them tomorrow. And thats the scariest part. [More]
U.S. Military Eyes Fielding "Prompt Global Strike" Weapon by 2015 — Elaine M. Grossman —Global Security Newswire — Jun 30, 2009
A top U.S. combatant commander would like to see rapid-strike, long-range conventional weapons fielded by 2015, according to military officials. [More]
The authors argue that the Obama administration's moves to pursue and strengthen nuclear arms control is weakening the U.S. nuclear deterrent and inviting attack. [More]
Deep-Packet Inspection in U.S. Scrutinized Following Iran Surveillance — Kim Zetter —Wired Threat Level — Jun 28, 2009
Following a report last week that Iran is spying on domestic internet users with western-supplied technology, advocacy groups are pressuring federal lawmakers to scrutinize the use of the same technology in the U.S. [More]